In 2 weeks this free roguelike has cracked Steam's top 50 all-time best-rated games, but the dev refuses to make any money off it
The Vampire Survivors-inspired, vtuber-styled action roguelike Holocure – Save the Fans was released on Steam on August 16, and it's since become the 46th highest-rated game to ever hit Valve's storefront, according to the Steam Top 250. But despite its runaway success, the lead developer on the game absolutely refuses to profit off of it, insisting he's doing fine with other work and just wants people to enjoy the game.
Holocure is currently sitting at 15,024 user reviews, with 99% of them being positive. This is a rare sort of outlier on the Steam Top 250. Most of the big-wigs, like Terraria or Stardew Valley or Hades, hover around a 97% or 98% positive score with hundreds of thousands of reviews – or a staggering 1.1 million in Terraria's case. Holocure, while immensely popular, is primarily riding its near-perfect rating to the top.
Holocure's neighbors on the top 250 are Hotline Miami and Doki Doki Literature Club, which have 86,686 and 191,122 reviews respectively, but 'only' 97% positive ratings. The next 99% positive game on the list is A Short Hike at 49 with 14,245 reviews. Up at rank 31, you have the 99% positive Pizza Tower with 38,214 reviews. Vampire Survivors is a particularly relevant comparison given its influence on Holocure's gameplay, and it's earned the number five spot with its own 99% rating across 206,230 reviews.
Holocure was originally released through Itch.io over a year ago, and was immediately so popular that its leaderboards crashed. It's steadily evolved into an incredibly polished, absolutely massive game packed with levels, items, life sim-like side activities, and dozens of unlockable characters who are all vtubers of the Japanese brand Hololive. Whether you like vtubers, Hololive,
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